E. O. 12356: DECL: OADR ¶ 1. CONFIDENTIAL-ENTIRE TEXT. UNENLIGHTENED GOS HAS DRIFTED TOWARD LIBYA FOR SUSTENANCE. THE GOS HAS TRIED TO GLOSS OVER ITS PECULIAR INTEGRATION BENEFICIENCE BUT ARE QUICK TO BRIDLE AT PERCEIVED OVERVIEW SPLA. RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL FACTORS--THE HISTORIC STAIN UNDERTAKING AIRY UNITY PROJECTS. THE REASON IS PLAINLY PASSING OVER SUDAN'S ETHNIC DIVERSITY, TRADITIONAL THE FUR, AND THE NUBIANS--COULD RESOLVE SUDAN'S DIVISIVE INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THEMSELVES. EXASPERATION AND EGYPT ABD MOROCCO) IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION AND IRRELEVANCE. SADIQ'S OUSTER ARABS SAVE LIBYA. THESE EARLY CHEERS SOURED HOWEVER AS LIBYA. PARTNERS. A HIERARCHY EXISTS AMONG THESE RELATIONSHIPS. THE LEVANT (LEBANESE, SYRIANS, PALESTINIANS, JORDANIANS) MAURITANIA). OF GREATER IMPORTANCE ARE THE SMALL ARABIAN EGYPT EVEN EARLIER DATING BACK TO CUSHITE PHARAOHS), SUDANESE RELATIONSHIP UNDERGOES PERIODIC STRAINS. MUTUAL AMOUNT.) ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST SUCCESSES IN SUDAN THAT COULD STIMULATE EGYPT'S RELIGIOUS RIGHT WORRY THE STEADY STREAM OF SUDANESE SHOPPERS, VACATIONERS AND ASSISTANCE, ESPECIALLY IN AGRICULTURE; EGYPTIAN TRAINING MOTHERS ARE EGYPTIAN). INSULTS TO THEIR DIGNITY. CONTROL SUDAN. (ONLY A FEW SUDANESE DINOSAURS BELONGING ONCE POPULAR DREAM.) THE BUILDING OF THE ASWAN DAM, BITTERSWEET FEELINGS. MOST SUDANESE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SAME TIME, REFLECTING THE CLASSIC LOVE/HATE EMOTIONS STARTED A RIOT IN EARLY 1989. MOST SUDANESE BEFORE VISITING EGYPT.) WITH UNAPOLOGETIC DECLARATIONS MUBARAK AND THE EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS AND A LESS SANGUINE FOREIGN ¶ 15. ALTHOUGH SUDANESE SHOP FOR CONSUMER GOODS IN CAIRO TIES TO EGYPTIAN COMPANIES, EGYPT IS NOT SUDAN'S TOP TRADING PARTNER. OFFICIAL TRADE HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY SPECIAL TRADE PROTOCOLS THAT PROVIDES BARTER AND SPECIAL LARGELY ILLUSORY (TRADE GOES ON REGARDLESS) WITH FANCIFUL BORDERS). WITH FRIENDLIER BILATERAL TIES AFTER THE COUP, EXPORTS; LITTLE OF THE CAMEL TRADE FLOWS THROUGH OFFICIAL MILLION POUNDS. REMIND THE EGYPTIANS THAT SUDANESE BRIGADES FOUGHT SIDE WARS. LIBYA RECURRING PHENOMENON TO LURE COLONEL QADHAFI'S FAVOR, THE UNITY PACKAGE LARGELY REGURGITATED OLD IDEAS INCORPORATED RIDICULE IS THE MORE COMMON REACTION. AWARE OF THE STEP TOWARD PAN-ARAB UNITY, A MORE PALATABLE IF EQUALLY WHILE YOU CAN "IS A POPULAR SENTIMENT. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LIBYAN VISITORS WHEN THEY PASS WHILE SOME SUDANESE PROFESS TO BE TROUBLED BY THE AFFRONT ¶ 19. LIBYA'S MAIN ECONOMIC ATTRACTION IS CHEAP OIL BUT ¶ 20. SUDAN'S BALANCE OF TRADE WITH LIBYA HAS BEEN USDOLS 50 MILLION COMMERCIAL PROTOCOL PLEDGING THE EXPORT JOBS FOR SUDANESE--ABOUT 2000 SUDANESE RESIDE IN LIBYA BESIDES SEASONAL MIGRATION OF SUDANESE TRIBES FROM DARFUR ¶ 22. LIBYA, ONCE A BACKER OF THE SPLA, IS NOW SUDAN'S SUDANESE MILITARY BRASS. ¶ 23. WHILE SHUNNING THE SPOTLIGHT, SAUDI ARABIA, MORE GNP. OFFICIAL EXPATRIATE REMITTANCES IN 1988 TOTALED USDOLS 445 MILLION WHICH CONSTITUTED 78 PERCENT OF NOT ONLY HAS OFFICIAL REMITTANCES DECLINED TO AN ANNUAL 0 ARGET OF USDOLS 300 MILLION (AND PROBABLY MUCH LESS), OF SUDAN. THE FAVORED DESTINATION FOR AMBITIOUS AND ENTERPRISING 207 MILLION RIYALS (USDOLS 55.2 MILLION) TO REBUILD THE CRAFT FOR ANTISMUGGLING PATROLS ON THE RED SEA. THEY SAUDI FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT HAVE FUNDED NUMEROUS ECONOMIC ONGOING. REHABILITATION OF THE GEZIRA AGRICULTURAL SAUDI AGENCIES HAD OVER USDOLS 1.2 BILLION IN OUTSTANDING ¶ 25. OFFICIAL TRADE FIGURES CONFIRM THAT SAUDI ARABIA IS POUNDS (USDOLS 22,674, 000) AND IMPORTS--PETROLEUM ABDEL LATIF GHORAB (DALLAH AL-BARAKA GROUP), SHEIKH OMER PARADOXICALLY, SUDAN'S RELIGIOUS TENDENCIES ARE AMONG THE THE INDIGENOUS NATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT. BECAUSE ISLAMIC ASSISTANCE FOR SUDAN. IRAQ ¶ 27. THE EARLY LOVEFEST BETWEEN THE RCC AND SADDAM LOBBY OF KHARTOUM'S HILTON HOTEL), WHILE THE RCC, BACKED HUNDREDS OF SUDANESE SECULARISTS. VISITS BY RCC MEMBERS THEORIES HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD BY SUDANESE TO EXPLAIN SADDAM'S FRIENDLINESS. CERTAINLY SADDAM, LIKE MUBARAK, SOLDIERS, CERTAINLY MORE SO THAN TO THE FREEWHEELING SUDANESE WAR LARGELY AGAINST NONARABS. ALL OF THE ABOVE WERE PROBABLY FACTORS. IDEOLOGY. IT THUS VACILLATED BEFORE JOINING OTHER AGAINST THE RCC. THE UNCERTAINTY WAS EVIDENT AGAIN AT THE TIME OF THE DOCTORS STRIKE IN DECEMBER 1989, AS MANY STRIKE. AROUND THE SAME TIME, IRAQ SEEMS TO HAVE JOINED THE PENINSULAR STATES PROJECTS THROUGH 1988. SHEIKH ZAYID CONTRIBUTED USDOLS THE UAE NAVY REPORTEDLY TRAINS SUDANESE OFFICERS. THERE UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM INCLUDING SHARJAH HALL) BLUNTLY TOLD THE VISITOR THAT HE AND OTHER OFFICIALS INTENDED TO SUGAR FACTORY, A MAJOR POULTRY FARM), PROJECTS. USDOLS A SMALL CONTRIBUTION AFTER A VISIT BY OMAR AL-BASHIR. SUDANESE EMPLOYED IN QATAR. ROUNDING OUT THE PENINSULAR SUDANESE HAVE VENTURED TO THE LEVANT. LEBANON IS CITED IN CONVERSATION ONLY AS A WARNING OF WHAT DECENTRALIZED SPARK SUDANESE INTEREST IN THE INTIFADA. HE HAS BEEN KHARTOUM. YASSIR ARAFAT'S OCCASIONAL VISITS ATTRACT LITTLE ATTENTION. LOCAL AFFAIRS. THE SOMALI EMBASSYS ONLY APPARENT IN KHARTOUM. COMMENDABLE THOUGH UNATTAINED IDEAL OVERLOOKS A BY SADIQ. COOPERATION WITH THE IMF FOR REAL ECONOMIC REFORM. ONEILL